4: Antebellum, Civil War, & Reconstruction

Find my lie about Antebellum Georgia.

• Land was cheap.
• Most farms were less than 100 acres.
• The cost of land was determined by the cost of cotton.
• Only sons of wealthy planters were educated.

Why was the Compromise of 1850 needed?

• Missouri wanted to join the U.S. as a slave state.
• Texas was trying to annex Oklahoma.
• California want to enter the U.S. as a free state.
• Maine wanted to enter the U.S. as a free state.

Why did the Democratic Party have two candidates in the Election of 1860?

• The North was for Popular Sovereignty and the South was against it.
• The South was for slavery and the North was against it.
• The South was for Popular Sovereignty and the North was against it.
• The South was for high tariffs and the North was for low tariffs.

How many slaves were in the U.S. by 1860?

• 500,000
• 1 million
• 2 million
• 4 million

Which statement is not true about the Emancipation Proclamation?

• President Lincoln wrote this document five days after the 'victory' at Antietam.
• If the CSA didn't surrender by 1/1/1863, all of their slaves would be freed.
• Lincoln gave the CSA a week to make a decision.
• If the CSA surrendered by 1/1/1863, they would be allowed to keep their slaves.

This made slavery illegal in the U.S.

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• The Georgia Act

Which statement is not true about the Ku Klux Klan?

• Members wore robes with hoods to disguise themselves.
• They beat, whipped, and killed black men to scare them from voting.
• Members wanted to stop men from voting for Republican candidates.
• Congress ignored the KKK's activity in Georgia.

Why wasn't the Union Blockade very successful early in the war?

• France was helping the Confederates smuggle goods in and out of the South.
• The Union (North) had only 26 ships to use in the blockade.
• Blockade runners were not punished.
• Blockade runners were ignored.

Why did the Union want to control Chattanooga?

• Factories and mills
• Factories and railroad
• Railroad and Tennessee River
• Confederate capital

Union general during Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea - wanted to make Georgia howl

• William Rosecrans
• Ulysses Grant
• William Sherman
• Joseph Johnston